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This is huge for justice. Protection for personal property is one of the most fundamental tenets of our society. Don't know why it takes so long for the wheel
by ww520 8y ago
This is huge for justice. Protection for personal property is one of the most fundamental tenets of our society. Don't know why it takes so long for the wheel of justice to get going.
- afsina 8y agoI agree. However, keep in mind that personal property is considered as the root of all evil by some ideologies.
- sgift 8y agoYeah. Capitalism hates it when YOU have personal property. Only ME, ME, ME is allowed to have that. Or did you have some other ideology in mind?
- afsina 8y agosarcasm?
- Fjolsvith 8y agoThe only capitalists who hate people having property are the ones who are too lazy to earn their own.
- mmirate 8y agoIt was clearly a (slightly-malaprop'ed) reference to Marxism et al, which claims that the root of all evil is private property (which is actually the foundation of resiliently peaceful human interaction and trade). I'm not sure why you're confusing capitalism with kleptocracy.
- trentmb 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_versus_private_property https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_property#Personal_ver...
- mmirate 8y agoLuckily those ideologies have yet to fully rule the US.
- dang 8y agoPlease do not take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They routinely lead to the worst, most boring and flamey threads we see. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html